Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 3 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 4 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 5 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 6 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 7 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 8 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 9 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 10 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 12 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 13 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 14 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 15 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 16 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 17 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
| 18 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 19 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 20 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 21 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 22 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 23 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 24 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 25 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
| 26 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 27 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 28 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 29 | I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’ |
| 30 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |